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Television personality Kim Kardashian (C) enters the White House grounds on May 30, 2018 in Washington, DC. Photo: AFP

Days away from a historic summit with North Korea’s mercurial leader, US President Donald Trump held a White House meeting Wednesday with another famous Kim — reality TV star Kardashian — to discuss prison reform and sentencing.

Kardashian was expected to meet aide Jared Kushner, who has spearheaded stuttering White House efforts at criminal justice reform.

In the end, she met with fellow TV personality, President Donald Trump — formerly of “The Apprentice” and New York tabloid fame.

“Great meeting with @KimKardashian today, talked about prison reform and sentencing,” the president said in a tweet, accompanied by a photograph of the pair in the Oval Office, with Trump flashing a broad grin.

Kardashian, 37, is known for her socialite TV persona, but has also called for the release of Alice Marie Johnson, a 62-year-old who has been in prison for more than two decades for a nonviolent drug offense.

Fixing tough sentencing laws had been a priority of president Barack Obama’s administration, but he failed to win Congressional support, prompting a stream of presidential pardons and clemency actions.

Trump has so far taken a more hardline approach, advocating a “lock-em-up-and-throw-away-the-key” approach to criminal justice.

During his first year and half in office he has pardoned disgraced Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, a Trump supporter who was convicted of violating a court order to halt traffic patrols targeting immigrants.

He also pardoned vice president Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff Lewis “Scooter” Libby.

Last month, Kim’s rapper husband Kanye West raised eyebrows after tweeting about his “love” for Trump and describing him as a “brother” with whom he shared “dragon energy.”

UAE authorities have penalised a centre for disabled people in Dubai for hosting US reality television star Kim Kardashian, describing its invitation as “pointless,” media reported Tuesday.

The social development ministry said that the Rashid Centre for the Disabled violated regulations after receiving Kardashian without a permit, the Emirat Al-Youm newspaper said.

The ministry said it would not have granted a permit because it is “pointless to receive her,” according to the report, which did not specify the punishment.

During Kardashian’s visit, the students wore T-shirts featuring her picture that the management said were distributed by the American star.
Kardashian went to the centre in mid-January while she was in the Gulf emirate, apparently on her first visit abroad since the widely-reported robbery targeting her in Paris in October.

The centre’s administration said it did not seek permission because time was limited, the paper reported.

The ministry said it was still investigating the case, warning that the penalty could extend to closing the centre, the paper reported.

Six more suspects in the October armed robbery in Paris of US television reality star Kim Kardashian were charged Friday including the alleged mastermind of the spectacular heist, prosecutors said.

A total of 10 have now been charged including five accused of a direct role in the robbery, during which Kardashian was bound and gagged at gunpoint, locked into a bathroom and robbed of jewellery worth some nine million euros ($9.5 million).

The 60-year-old ringleader’s DNA was found on the materials used to bind Kardashian, leading police to the other suspects, sources close to the probe said earlier.

Those charged Friday include three others suspected of direct involvement in the heist, while the fifth was charged on Thursday.

The ringleader’s son and girlfriend were charged with abetting the biggest jewellery theft from an individual that France has seen in more than 20 years.

One of five men suspected of taking part in the armed robbery of US reality TV star Kim Kardashian in Paris in October has been charged, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Yunice A., 63, has been charged with robbing Kardashian at gunpoint and leaving her bound and gagged in a bathroom in her luxury residence in the early hours of October 3, the prosecutor said.

Nine suspects are still in custody including four other men ranging in age from 54 to 72 who are suspected of direct involvement in the spectacular heist in which they made off with jewellery worth around nine million euros ($9.5 million).

Wearing police uniforms, they first overpowered a night watchman at the residence in the chic Madeleine area of the city where 36-year-old Kardashian was staying during Paris Fashion Week.

Two of them then burst into the star’s apartment, gagged and bound her at gunpoint and locked her in a bathroom before helping themselves to the jewellery.

French police suspect that a 72-year-old convicted cocaine dealer was among five masked gunmen who broke into Kim Kardashian’s apartment and robbed her of jewels worth millions last year, a source close to the probe said Wednesday.

Pierre B. — nicknamed “Pierrot” — was arrested Monday at a villa on the Riviera in a series of coordinated raids in Paris and the south of the country over the October 3 robbery.

He was convicted of cocaine trafficking in 2006 and had appeared on the police’s radar “from time to time” since over his links to criminal gangs in southern France, the source said.

A 60-year-old is also in custody and suspected of being among the five armed men who took part in the stunning heist at a luxury apartment in central Paris, when thieves made off with jewellery worth around nine million euros ($9.5 million).

Investigators say all five suspected robbers are in custody as well as the suspected mastermind of the break-in.

Three of the 17 arrested so far were released Wednesday, a legal source said.

They include a chauffeur, who drove Kardashian during her Paris stay, whose arrest led to suspicions that the gang had inside information on the US reality star’s movements.

– Cash, no jewels found –

The driver’s brother remains in custody on suspicion of tipping off the others that her bodyguard Pascal Duvier was absent on the night of the robbery and giving them details about her residence.

Duvier was not with Kardashian because he was providing security for her sister Kourtney at a Paris nightclub. He no longer works for the family.

Police tracked down the suspects after finding DNA at the crime scene which led to a surveillance operation on the suspects.

A police source said that nearly all those arrested were known for organised crime. They included three women, including a 65-year-old.

The armed and masked men wearing police uniforms burst into Kardashian’s residence in the chic Madeleine area of the capital where the 36-year-old and her entourage were staying during Paris Fashion Week.

Kardashian was tied up and locked in the bathroom. The thieves, whose booty included a ring worth around four million euros, fled the scene on bicycle or on foot.

The star’s 30,000 euro diamond necklace was found in the street by a passer-by hours after the heist.

Searches have turned up 200,000 euros in cash, but none of the other jewels have been recovered, investigators say.

The nine million euro haul was the biggest from an individual in France in two decades. It also generated more unwanted publicity for Paris, which has seen its image damaged by major terror attacks in 2015 and last year. Luxury hotel bookings and foreign tourist arrivals in France are both down.

The biggest French jewellery heist ever occurred in July 2013, when robbers attacked an exhibition of “Extraordinary Diamonds” at the Carlton hotel in Cannes and made off with an estimated 103 million euros in jewels.

Kardashian, the world’s highest paid reality television star, harnessed the power of social media to rise to fame, with nearly 50 million followers on Twitter and 90 million on Instagram.

Three of 17 people who were detained by French Police during an investigation into the Paris heist of reality television star Kim Kardashian West have been released, a judicial source said on Wednesday.

Among those released was Kardashian West’s driver, who was detained Monday in connection with the October robbery that saw an estimated 10 million dollars’ worth of jewellery lifted from the star in a Paris apartment.

The judicial source said 14 people remain in police custody.

Five people disguised as police arrived at the apartment hotel where Kardashian West was staying during Paris Fashion Week in October, and stole valuables including a ring valued at 4 million euros and a jewellery box valued at 5 million euros.

The prosecutor’s office said this week that the jewels had not been retrieved.

Kardashian West, who had made much of her wealth with self promotion, was unusually silent on social media in the months following the robbery.

On January 3, she posted her first photographs on Twitter and Instagram, but has not publicly commented on the incident. (dpa/NAN